Formerly Head Teacher at Costello School, Basingstoke, LEIGH ADAMS has been appointed Director of Education and Skills at the BFI.
16th March 2018
Chief Learning and Engagement Officer at Historic Royal Palaces, ELIZABETH MCKAY, has joined the board of Kids in Museums. She is joined by LINSAY TRUEMAN, a Partner at Lancor London.
MALGORZATA DZIERZON and RENAUD WISER have been appointed as the new Artistic Directors of Fertile Ground, taking over from DORA FRANKEL, who founded the Newcastle-based dance company.
9th March 2018
After 23 years with the company, DAVID BINTLEY has announced he will step down as Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet in July 2019. The news follows the announcement of CAROLINE MILLER’s appointment as interim Chief Executive for one year.
Following the departure of NICK WALKER, The Core at Corby Cube has announced the appointment of JOE FLAVIN as its new Director. Flavin co-founded RED Wednesday Arts and joins The Core from Axis Ballymun, where he was Technical and Production Manager.
CONRAD NELSON, who has worked with Northern Broadsides since 1992 and is currently the company’s Artistic Development Director and Composer, will become Artistic Director and Joint CEO for the next 12 months. He takes over from BARRIE RUTTER, who was Artistic Director for the past 26 years.
Founder and principal of design and architecture studio AL_A, AMANDA LEVETE, has joined the board at the Creative Industries Federation.
Revd BETSY BLATCHLEY, who worked in theatre for over 20 years before training for ordination, including five years at the National Theatre, has become Southwark Diocese’s first Pioneer Minister in the Arts. She will work across the Battersea Nine Elms development areas and is passionate about “seeing God’s love and justice transform London, through the mission of God’s church and through the arts”. Blatchley’s appointment follows a...
CURTIS FULCHER will take on the role of Director of Bridport Arts Centre in May. Fulcher, Head of Communications at The Courtyard in Hereford since 2011, has previously worked at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon.
JAMES CADDICK, whose work has been shown at Cannes, Edinburgh and Milan, has been appointed as Lecturer on the Digital Media Production degree at Plymouth College of Art.